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[Brian37]

Not lumping you with others in this thread. I actually get it more just in terms of taste the rejection of the Bee Gees. I do think disco in general was a victim of it's own success, regardless of band name. ABBA alone was more of a range than they were known for. And even the Bee Gees got a bad wrap.

You know, when I was in my teens, I hated disco. But asked now, I don't find it that bad.

Maybe some kind of nostalgia, maybe it wasn't so bad after all and I didn't understand it back then. But that would require a different thread. I don't want to be the one to derail this one.

Btw. The Bee Gees in the 70ies still aren't my cup of tea.

It really has to do with anything in life. When we get used to a pattern, anything that does not fit with that pattern will come across as bad or wrong, when in reality most of the time it is merely a difference in our range of behavior as a species.

I loved disco as a kid, I turned on it because of social norms that came about in the 80s, but even in that rejection, there was overlap between the eras that lead me to the music I took to.

Debbie Harry and Blondie could hardly be called disco but "Heart of Glass" and "Rapture" were obviously influenced by disco. And saxophone was heavy in disco carried over to rock, in bands like Quarter Flash and Foreigner and Billy Joel and the Eagles. That lead me to Styx and Reo Speadwagon, then to Metallica and even modern Jazz such as Sanborn and Candy Dulpher and Manhattan Transfer.